Sorry i can't read indian

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haha
i had the same thing but from bankwest. they wanted to id me by asking me my date of birth and password. i said they would have to id themselves first, which they could not, goodbye.

Slightly off topic but anyone ever have a bit of fun with telemarketers and use those '25 ways to annoy telemarketers' etc and stuff? I find it puts you in a good mood after they hang up first. See how they like it! My favourite is putting on an indian accent, asking why alot then making them go off on a tangent explaining everything in detail. Usually by then they get it and hang up. Next time I'm gonna aim higher and do some of those even more stupid outlandish things people suggest on the net

^^^^

Telstra has been changing its billing systems over the last few years, trying to get them into the new millenium (never mind decade) and struggling. Your number could have gotten confused in amongst all that.

I get the same issue with my Foxtel payments (through Telstra). I never pay the fricken things. Eventually I get a phone call from Telstra who ask me my date of birth. I refuse to tell them saying I don't know who they are. They're getting quite used to that. They usually end up by giving me a number to call. Check the bill, pay up and they stop calling.

Everyone I know with a landline spends the whole time whinging about the calls from indians they receive.

If you need to be on call for work, or can only connect to the internet via non-naked ADSL, or you have certain types of alarm system, then sure you need a landline.

For anyone else if you put the extra 20-30 bucks a month onto your mobile plan, you should be able to make all the calls you'd ever want. So why run a landline?

kiteboy dave said...
So why run a landline?

Because I have a hope (probably vain) that one day I will get connected to the NBN.

I had it happen to me one day where they wanted me to prove who I was by telling them my date of birth. No, I said. Eventually we worked out how to do it -- the rep would tell me the day of my birth, while I would tell him the month. This way we both knew that we were speaking to the correct person.

I can't remember what it was about, but I do seem to remember that it was something pretty small like an overdue bill.

newguy said...

Slightly off topic but anyone ever have a bit of fun with telemarketers and use those '25 ways to annoy telemarketers' etc and stuff? I find it puts you in a good mood after they hang up first. See how they like it! My favourite is putting on an indian accent, asking why alot then making them go off on a tangent explaining everything in detail. Usually by then they get it and hang up. Next time I'm gonna aim higher and do some of those even more stupid outlandish things people suggest on the net

ask: "so, what are you wearing?" in a breathy voice. works every time for a quick hangup.

hmmm maybe there's still hope for pigeon's making a comeback

Why does anyone these days have a landline still anyway?

After sorting it out on Friday night(we thought), still more calls on Saturday asking for the same info. So we rang them again, this time got through to the Phillipines and sorted it out(we thought - they also asked if we could pay part of the bills by credit card immediately - no efin way we said). Didn't get any calls on Sunday or Monday. They started again this morning. i waited til the postie came and guess what! no bill from them.
A bit pissed off now I rang them again and got through to India. Told the poor guy on the other end that I was pissed off and want to speak to someone in Australia who I can understand and who can understand me and I am definitely not wasting my efin time talking to you or someone in the Phillipines(in a very angry voice)
He put me through to Australia/Australian who I could understand and hopefully we will have a couple of bills by the end of the week.(without having our phone cut off)

Still couldn't tell me how or why the address change happened. But did say the recorded message calls were from telstra credit. So we had some indians saying not us, some saying yes its us, and Australia saying yes its us.

Anyone use any of the other carriers for their land line phone and internet and are you happy with them.

I was with Iinet for 4 yrs without any sort of problem at all.
Went to telstra when I started working away purely for cheap calls between myself and home.

Getting mobile connected :) great ! no probs at all.
Home landline.... What a pack of r*&^%ds... 6 months and about 25 calls to them before they finally got it right...

And after getting it right still not getting free calls I expected.
F*&K telstra. As soon as my 2yrs are up I'm gone.

rant over..

'roast

TurtleHunter said...

I use westnet and their service has always been above what you would expect.